Financing your Studies

Grant/Scholarship from the Rouen Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Every year, the Rouen Chamber of Commerce and Industry grants reductions in tuition fees to students with academic merit and who are financially disadvantaged. This grant is reserved for students who follow a programme for at least 2 years.

A grants committee in the Rouen Chamber of Commerce and Industry meets during February or March to examine each application ; students with academic merit who can show they have done their best to manage their budget are especially favoured. The committee can grant reductions of up to half of the tuition fees. The grant application can be obtained in December from the Administration and Finance Department of Rouen Business School, or from the secretaries of the various programmes, or it can be sent on request to students who are not on the campus at that time.

The completed application should be returned by the date indicated. The application is on an annual basis, and the request fro reduction must be renewed each year.

State grants (Crous)

Rouen Business School is approved for the reception of students who have a higher education grant (except for the Specialised Masters, MSc and MBA programmes). These grants are awarded to students who are not repeating a year.

Students should fill in their application (dossier social) for the following academic year between January and the end of April on the www.crous-rouen.fr website. In order to be exempted from social security charges and to enable the grant to be paid, the student must provide the Administration and Finance Department with the final confirmation of the grant award.

CROUS – Division de la Vie de l’Etudiant – 3, rue d’Herbouville
76042 ROUEN cedex
Contact : Mme TEBIB at 02 32 08 50 52

Travel grants

A student can apply for this in order to carry out an internship abroad or an exchange with a foreign university. These grants can be held concurrently with State grants and those paid by Rouen Business School.

• ‘Region without frontiers’, individual grants awarded after consideration of application to students carrying out an internship of at least 6months in a foreign company and in the field of trade, exports, marketing or transport logistics. Students can get the application forms from the internships office. For more information, please go to the www.region-haute-normandie.fr  website.
• European Union travel grants (Erasmus and Socrates programmes) : these grants can be held concurrently with State grants. For more information, please contact the International Department at Rouen Business School.

Other grants

• From the Regional Council : Different kinds of financial assistance can be granted (e.g. : Individual training Grant). They are intended to help people who want to do training leading to a qualification or diploma linked to a career plan. For more information please go to your region’s website. For learners resident in Normandy, the address of the site is : www.region-haute-normandie.fr.
• The ‘Fondation Jacques Lambert’ : Grants for first year students in the Master Grande Ecole programme whose financial situation is precarious and who have obtained excellent academic results in school or university in the preceding year. The Administration and Finance Department of Rouen Business School sends two applications per year to the foundation, during February.

Bank loans

• A large number of banks offer students loans at preferential rates, repayable when the student enters the job market. Among the banking institutions which regularly offer loans to students at Rouen Business School, we may mention (the list is not exhaustive) the following : BNP, BRED, the Caisse d’Epargne, HSBC, CIC – Banque BSD-CIN, LCL, the Crédit du Nord, the Crédit Mutuel, the Société Générale.

Loans without guarantee

• The BRED / Banque Populaire offers a student loan guaranteed by the state, without the need to have a third-party guarantee. The maximum amount of the loan is 15 000 €. The bank also offers a loan guaranteed by an LMDE (student social security organisation) guarantee fund to students who have registered with an LMDE centre.
• An unsecured loan can be granted to students of Rouen Business School. This applies to students whose academic results and behaviour show the most merit. Applications are examined by the Administration and Finance Department before being transferred to the CIC – Banque BSD-CIN and the Société Générale

Other ways of covering financial costs

There are other ways of financing part of the fees :

• Apprenticeship, offered by the Bachelor of Commerce – ISPP and the Master Grande Ecole programmes. The apprentice receives a salary (% of the minimum wage). The tuition fees are no longer his/her responsibility.
• Compulsory internships throughout the time in the school.
• Occasional jobs offered by the school (various kinds of administrative work, monitoring in computer rooms, participation in school events, etc.).

NB : In the case of siblings entering the school, a reduction of 10% of tuition fees will be granted for each student, for each academic year they are in any of the school’s programmes together.